Re: Come up and see me sometime

: What Mae West said first in 1933 in the movie "She Done Him Wrong" was, Why don't you
: come up sometime'n see me? I'm home everyy evening."

Eric Partridge, "A Dictionary of Catch
Phrases American and British," quotes another author (Nigel Rees, "Very Interesting . . . But Stupid: Catchphrases from the World of Entertainment") as making the same observation: "What [Mae West ] does say (to a very young Cary Grant) is: 'You know I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up some time and see me?' The easier to articulate version is said to Mae West by W. C. Fields in 'My Little Chickadee' ."